Gabonese judicial system did not surprise anyone. The ritual Criminals are still running under the tightest of impunity. The embezzlers public of public funds are still exercising their financial bulimia with as much aplomb as before, openly; but the republic has been saved by the conviction of its public enemy number one, Marc Ona Essangui, who had the audacity to speak about the too obvious collusion between the Singaporean company Olam and Ali Bongo’s cabinet in the person of this Gabonese pure juice since he says to be from Ndjolé via Mogadishu, Liban Soleman. What did they reproach to Marc Ona Essangui? "Do you have evidence of the collision?” Nonsense, dear readers, because Mborantsuo must as well be exonerated of any charge of voter fraud, and anybody daring to accuse her of being the mistress (in more ways than one) of electoral fraud in Gabon, must be sentenced to hanging because none of us has evidence of Omar Bongo inserting himself into her, or she inserting false figures on electoral documents in Gabon. But dear readers, there are situations that are so obvious that requiring proof reflects only the bad faith of the requerant. So when the Gabonese justice system demands that Ona Essangui provides evidence of the collision between Olam and the Gabonese presidency, it is like asking a person not suffering from blindness to prove that the sky is blue ... There is evidence which does not even deserve an answer ...

Should we even question that the regime is trying to prove by condemning Marc Ona Essangui? Should we still push through gaping doors? Should we still take the time to explain the revenge felt by those for whom merit means nothing when they must enjoy the pleasure of "punishing" one of the most prominent Gabonese nationals who they think has been disrespectful to them? Gabon rulers in their authoritarian logic, continue to turn the country into a Gulag for those who make the “mistake” of thinking that Gabonese citizens are also entitled to experience new freedoms, which have been universal for centuries. So, as usual, the sadistic twist in addition, with the authoritarianism of the attained, they condemn, hoping to discourage those who care about fundamental freedoms, and those who refuse to live in a country that goes down, while the world rises and flourishes.

The condemnation of Marc Ona Essangui and the echoes it raises beyond Gabon’s national borders, is the best indication that under the Bongos, Gabon will have difficulties to wake up from the long night of dictatorship and the regime’s chill toward fundamental freedoms remains impervious to dissent. Indeed, under the Bongos, what else could be expected but pessimism when the rulers do not want to understand that justice, equality and freedom are the sine qua non for building a modern society that is growing? When they want at all costs to continue to force the Gabonese people to internalize oppression? When they find it normal that the state is arbitrary and its representative supersedes any law? When they require power to be hereditary and that the President, his tiny majesty, must be seen as a god, an absolute monarch, whose ideas, orders are not discussed? When they want to believe that Ali Bongo of Gabon and his court have all the rights and opponents and members of the free civil society are insolent. Gabon, will not recover as long as things remain as they are. The condemnation of Marc Ona Essangui is the expression of a state that wants to silence free people, yet if it wants to silence it is that it has something to hide, and if it has something to hide, it means that it is afraid and if it is afraid, is means that it can fall.

It is time that in Gabon, the most complacent toward this regime under the pretext of political, ethnic or cultural differentiation realize that we must fight against the darkness in which the regime keeps the Gabonese people. The condemnation of Marc Ona Essangui is not a private matter, but an attack on our collective rights. How can it be said now in Gabon, that violence and deprivation of rights only affects some and not others? We cannot accept that there is power on the one hand and human rights on the other. This should not even be debatable because we should require that power respects international law and complies with the terms of these universal laws. Marc Ona Essangui will not pay the fine and will not do a day in jail. Let them arrest him!

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